Governing Extractive Industries Politics, Histories, Ideas

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. Governing Extractive Industries synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. The authors focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact, exploring the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production.

Anthony Bebbington is Australia Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and from 2010-2017 was Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University where he is also Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society (on leave). He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the Iberoamerican Institute/Free University in Berlin among others. He is also Professorial Fellow at the Global Development Institute of the University of Manchester and Research Associate with Rimisp-Latin American Centre for Rural Development in Chile. Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Abdulai holds a First Class Bachelors degree in Political Science from the University of Ghana (Legon-Accra), an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester (UK). His work has been published by African Affairs; New Political Economy, Democratization, Development Policy Review; European Journal of Development Research; and the Journal of International Development. He won the prestigious Herti Gesseling Prize for best paper authored by an African-based scholar in 2016. Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change at Clark University, and from 2012 to 2016 was also Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Clark. Previously she has been Latin America Coordinator for the Global Greengrants Fund and Foundation Representative to Peru for the Inter-American Foundation, among other research and development positions. Her research has addressed the interactions among indigenous pe